Wendy Holden's Podcast
A revealing and personal insight into the life and work of bestselling author Wendy Holden as she discusses her books, the stories that inspire her and the effect writing mostly about war has on her.
Wendy Holden's Podcast
The Cruelty of Beauty: a page-turning novel of obsession and suspense
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Wendy Holden
A beautiful glassmaker. Two damaged men who love her. Set in exotic Bohemia and the wilderness of an English coast, this is a story of obsession and passion and fear…
Wendy Holden explains where she found the unlikely inspiration for her latest novel, The Cruelty of Beauty, set in pre-revolution Czechoslovakia and Norfolk. 'A seed had been planted in my writer’s imagination - the nucleus of a yellow-green flower that would blossom into my next novel. What if I created a glassmaker as a central character, a young woman who worked with uranium glass yet didn’t fully appreciate how dangerous it was? The more I thought about it, the more the seed germinated into a fully-grown bloom.....'